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Mammography is one of the most commonly applied tools for early breast cancer screening. Automatic segmentation of breast masses in mammograms is essential but challenging due to the low signal-to-noise ratio and the wide variety of mass…

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Currently Mammography is a most effective imaging modality used by radiologists for the screening of breast cancer. Finding an accurate, robust and efficient breast region segmentation technique still remains a challenging problem in…

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Cancer is one of the most common and fatal diseases in the world. Breast cancer affects one in every eight women and one in every eight hundred men. Hence, our prime target should be early detection of cancer because the early detection of…

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Computer-aided detection systems based on deep learning have shown good performance in breast cancer detection. However, high-density breasts show poorer detection performance since dense tissues can mask or even simulate masses. Therefore,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Lidia Garrucho , Kaisar Kushibar , Richard Osuala , Oliver Diaz , Alessandro Catanese , Javier del Riego , Maciej Bobowicz , Fredrik Strand , Laura Igual , Karim Lekadir

Screening mammograms are a routine imaging exam performed to detect breast cancer in its early stages to reduce morbidity and mortality attributed to this disease. In order to maximize the efficacy of breast cancer screening programs,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Vikash Gupta , Clayton Taylor , Sarah Bonnet , Luciano M. Prevedello , Jeffrey Hawley , Richard D White , Mona G Flores , Barbaros Selnur Erdal

Mammographic breast density is a well-established risk factor for breast cancer. Recently there has been interest in breast MRI as an adjunct to mammography, as this modality provides an orthogonal and highly quantitative assessment of…

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Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women across the globe. It is difficult to treat if detected at advanced stages, however, early detection can significantly increase chances of survival and improves lives of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Unaiza Sajid , Rizwan Ahmed Khan , Shahid Munir Shah , Sheeraz Arif

Breast cancer is a prominent health concern worldwide, currently being the secondmost common and second-deadliest type of cancer in women. While current breast cancer diagnosis mainly relies on mammography imaging, in recent years the use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Tamir Shor , Chaim Baskin , Alex Bronstein

Microcalcifications are small deposits of calcium that appear in mammograms as bright white specks on the soft tissue background of the breast. Microcalcifications may be a unique indication for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ breast cancer, and…

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In the last few years, deep learning classifiers have shown promising results in image-based medical diagnosis. However, interpreting the outputs of these models remains a challenge. In cancer diagnosis, interpretability can be achieved by…

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Breast cancer is considered as the most fatal type of cancer among women worldwide and it is crucially important to be diagnosed at its early stages. In the current study, we aim to represent a fast and efficient framework which consists of…

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The rapid development of deep learning, a family of machine learning techniques, has spurred much interest in its application to medical imaging problems. Here, we develop a deep learning algorithm that can accurately detect breast cancer…

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Traditional breast cancer imaging methods using microwave Nearfield Radar Imaging (NRI) seek to recover the complex permittivity of the tissues at each voxel in the imaging region. This approach is suboptimal, in that it does not directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Richard Obermeier , Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo

Breast density estimation is one of the key tasks in recognizing individuals predisposed to breast cancer. It is often challenging because of low contrast and fluctuations in mammograms' fatty tissue background. Most of the time, the breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Vikash Gupta , Mutlu Demirer , Robert W. Maxwell , Richard D. White , Barbaros Selnur Erdal

Breast cancer is one of the most common cause of deaths among women. Mammography is a widely used imaging modality that can be used for cancer detection in its early stages. Deep learning is widely used for the detection of cancerous masses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ahmed Rasheed , Muhammad Shahzad Younis , Junaid Qadir , Muhammad Bilal

Detecting cancer manually in whole slide images requires significant time and effort on the laborious process. Recent advances in whole slide image analysis have stimulated the growth and development of machine learning-based approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Sanghoon Lee , Colton Farley , Simon Shim , Yanjun Zhao , Wookjin Choi , Wook-Sung Yoo

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women both in developed and developing countries. Early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer may reduce its mortality and improve the quality of life. Computer-aided detection (CADx) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-23 Sokratis Makrogiannis , Chelsea E. Harris , Keni Zheng

The main objective of this project is to segment different breast ultrasound images to find out lesion area by discarding the low contrast regions as well as the inherent speckle noise. The proposed method consists of three stages (removing…

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Breast cancer is one of the leading fatal disease worldwide with high risk control if early discovered. Conventional method for breast screening is x-ray mammography, which is known to be challenging for early detection of cancer lesions.…

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